Alright, let me tell everyone from the jump I’m biased on this. Donkey Kong and Super Mario Bros. are some of the earliest memories in my life. Playing games with these characters are dearer to me than superhero comics, so after suffering in middle school with the old 1993 movie, I just expected that there…
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D Spinning Gold is not good folks. This film that is sold as the story of Casablanca Records is about Neil Bogart, one of the founders, and from the way, the film tells it the driving force behind this label and the artists on it and somehow their music. I sat in the theater, mostly…
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This review was originally posted on Punch Drunk Critics I’m a pretty big hip hop culture nerd as I get older. I end up spending a lot of time reading things about the origins of hip hop and the creation of the music. I’m constantly asked questions and giving long explanations of the simplest random…
Read MoreThis review was originally posted on Punch Drunk Critics See I really like musicals and I don’t mean in a guilty pleasure way either. I like them old joints with Gene Kelly or my dude Bing Crosby to West Side Story and Grease to even stuff like Glee and Smash on television. So when I…
Read MoreThis review was originally posted on Punch Drunk Critics With the holiday season now in full effect, we’re getting a barrage of holiday film after holiday film. One of the latest is from director and writer Kasi Lemmons, who brings us an updated adaptation of Langston Hughes’ play “Black Nativity,” starring Jacob Latimore, Forest Whitaker,…
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